Allegheny1600 Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Pictures showing the movement by road, then rail of a very large rail vehicle! The wheeled units and the chassis look rather like the WW2 rail gun (from my old Hasegawa kit!). If it is the remains of one of those vehicles - i never knew they still existed, wow! http://spannwerk.buntbahn.de/fotos/showphoto.php/photo/2519/limit/recent Enjoy, John E. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 impressive, but I can only see pic's of it on road wheels Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 The British had rail mounted guns in WW 2 and the sole survivor was illustrated in the current issue of Railway Magazine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 impressive, but I can only see pic's of it on road wheels Ed This picture http://spannwerk.bun...nt/limit/recent shows the rail truck at the far end. Â The design has the transformer built with mounts at either end to which are bolted the extension frames used for transport. Â The transformer itself forms the centre section of the trailer, it doesn't sit on a separate trailer. The advantages are reduced height and weight. For transport the two extension frames sit on turntables which can run on either road bogies or rail bogies. The photo above shows the transition being made as a road bogie is inserted under the front end, the next step is to remove the rear rail bogie and place that on a road bogie for final delivery by road. Actually, looking at it again it may be the reverse proceedure i.e. it's moving from road to rail. Arthur Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted August 6, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 6, 2010 There is one almost full length photo of this kind of wagon (commonly called a Tragschnabelwagen in German) here: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Tragschnabelwagen_mit_Transformator_%288789%29.jpg&filetimestamp=20091218083846 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Cor, that's a big'un! Thanks Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Goedel Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 If it's of interest there is a Trix (H0) and Minitrix (N) scale model of the largest type of this wagon currently in use by DB, the Uaai 839, which can transport up to 454 metric tonnes or a small neutron star. I believe that sometimes signals and things have to be dismantled and reinstalled afterwards for the wagon to fit past on some stretches of line? Amazingly this is often nesessary on model railways too given the model's sheer size and the prevalence of train set curves! http://www.trix.de/p...=&wishednumber= Not the sort of thing you want to meet on the outside track of a bend on a double track line! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallard Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 There is an HO scale drawing of a very similar wagon ( If that is the correct name for such a construction) on the NMRA site. I think the 12" to 1ft is, or was, used for moving nuclear material flasks, but I stand to be corrected about that. http://www.nmra.org/...E256colorHO.pdf BobM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gil Janus Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 There is an HO scale drawing of a very similar wagon ( If that is the correct name for such a construction) on the NMRA site. I think the 12" to 1ft is, or was, used for moving nuclear material flasks, but I stand to be corrected about that. http://www.nmra.org/...E256colorHO.pdf BobM It's just a really large car to transport big objects - just go to http://images.google.com and search for cebx 800 - enjoy. Gil, known as Bill somedays ... B) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted August 11, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 11, 2010 http://southern.railfan.net/schnabel/schnabel.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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